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The Last of the Windships, by Alan Vilshore-dwellers, and if we delude ourliers, Introduction by Basil Greenhill selves- why, we are the better for (W.W. Norton & Co., the thinking, anyway. Villiers's artistry as photographer illuLo ndon UK & New York NY, 2000, 216pp, mines these pages-we get wide perspec71 photos, maps & line tives of the lonely sea and the sky in all weath ers, as well as huge swatches of straindrawings, ISBN 0-393ing canvas and close-up involvements with 05033-5 ; $55hc) Alan Villiers's life in the people working the ship. A nd his words simply resonate in truths sail is well observed in of the deepwaterman 's experience. H e also his own photographs and sounds the depths of confronting the sea in his own words in this marvellous new compendium of his work. its anger. He comments, when the Parma, Villiers, it should be remembered, was a nearly overwhelmed, broaches to, that he professional journalist. That is how he tho ught he was now go ing to see the las t earned the living that took him on the moments of a ship and all her crew, a scene Cape Horn road around the world in quest n o on e had ever described because no one of the truths of ships and seafaring in the comes back from it. last age of sail. Greenhill's introduction gives a comThese words and pictures cover three prehens ive portrait of Villiers and his life voyages. The first is in the Herzogin Cecilie in ships, together with a remarkably wellfrom Melbourne, Australia, to Falmouth, informed picture of G ustaf Erikson, the England, in 1928 . Excerpts for this section Aland Islander who kept these last great are from Villiers' s Falmouth for Orders and Cape H orn sailing ships voyaging. PETER STANFORD The Set ofthe Sails. The second voyage is in the Grace Harwar from Port Lincoln, Australia, to Queenstown, Ireland, in 1929- Naval H istory an d Maritime Strategy, a voyage in which his great pal Ronald by John B. Hattendorf (Krieger Publishing Walker was killed while working aloft. Co., Malabar FL, 2000, 248pp, illus, inExcerpts are from By Way ofCape Horn and dex, ISBN 1-57524- 127-7; $29 .50hc) Naval History and Maritime Strategy The Set ofthe Sails. In the Parma in 1932, sailing from Port Lincoln to Fal mouth, he illuminates intellectual areas beyond the is a veteran deepwaterman and part owner roma ntic allure and adventure we associate with ship's captain Ruben de C loux. Ex- with the sea. The author, John Hattendorf, cerpts for this section are from Voyage ofthe Ernest J . King Professor of Maritime History at the US Naval War College, has Parma and Last of the Wind Ships. Never before has this vivid testimony assembled sixteen of his own essays-writbeen assembled to make one book of ten over a span of30 years-that provide a Villiers's extraordinary range and artis try tho ughr-provoking historical context to in capturing the living realiry of tall ships American naval power. And rhe book, raken and high canvas. He lived and wo rked as as a whole, is particularly important readone of the ship 's people who made the ing at a rime wh en there is diminishing ships go, moving cargo with the puny understanding of the relevance of naval power of their hands and the teamwork power to America's peace and prosperiry. and courage of a disciplined crew. H ere is In addition to this important historical a typical tribute to the yo ung crewmen: perspective, the collection provides fasciCape Horn ships form a wo nderful naring insights into the relationship bebackground for the building of tween American naval history and the yo uthful character, but it usually navalists who have been both prophets and shapers of modern history. Among those follows that the boys who go in them who play prominent roles in this naval are pre try strong-charactered already. "theater of thought" are Rear Admiral The saps and the yahoos stay ashore, Alfred Thayer Mahan, arguably the princito grow up in pampered jobs and to look down on mariners. Well, we all pal agent of change in the American tranlive but once, and a short span then; sition into a global sea power, and Britain's we think that here we get something Sir Julian Corbett, who has been called from our span which is hidden from Britain's greatest maritime strategist.
SEA HISTORY 94, AUTUMN 2000